The recent allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation against Utah County Commissioner Greg Graves should put to rest any notion that convention delegates are better equipped to vet and pick their party nominees than the electorate at large.
Graves’ stormy three-year stint as a commissioner — pitting him against his two Republican colleagues on the commission in sometimes nasty, petty battles, even prompting him to register, albeit briefly, as a Democrat in protest — is another testament to the folly of that delegates-know-better idea.
The delegates, elected in their neighborhood caucus meetings, gave Graves more than 60 percent vote to assure him the nomination right there and avoid a primary.